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Featuring stories from Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Richard & Richard Christian Matheson, and over a dozen other masters of the genre!

In 1980, Kirby McCauley assembled a landmark horror anthology that set the benchmark for the genre. That book was Dark Forces, and while it has been imitated many times over the last twenty-five years, it has never been matched.

Featuring stories from Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Richard & Richard Christian Matheson, and over a dozen other masters of the genre, Dark Forces belongs in the collection of anyone who treasures works of classic horror and dark fantasy.

All of these stories are on the must-read list for any new horror fan, including Stephen King's classic novella The Mist, which was made into a major feature film by director Frank Darabont.

Table of Contents:

• 1980 Introduction - Kirby McCauley
• The Late Shift - Dennis Etchison
• The Enemy - Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Dark Angel - Edward Bryant
• The Crest of Thirty-Six - Davis Grubb
• Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale - Robert Aickman
• Where the Summer Ends - Karl Edward Wagner
• The Bingo Master - Joyce Carol Oates
• Children of the Kingdom - T. E. D. Klein
• The Detective of Dreams - Gene Wolfe
• Vengeance Is. - Theodore Sturgeon
• The Brood - Ramsey Campbell
• The Whistling Well - Clifford D. Simak
• The Peculiar Demesne - Russell Kirk
• Where the Stones Grow - Lisa Tuttle
• The Night Before Christmas - Robert Bloch
• The Stupid Joke - Edward Gorey
• A Touch of Petulance - Ray Bradbury
• Lindsay and the Red City Blues - Joe W. Haldeman
• A Garden of Blackred Roses - Charles L. Grant
• Owls Hoot in the Daytime - Manly Wade Wellman
• Where There's a Will - Richard & Richard Christian Matheson
• Traps - Gahan Wilson
• The Mist - Stephen King

This collection of 17 stories of suspence is by writers who specialize in a combination of fantasy and fear. Each story contains notes by the editor. Authors include: Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, David Drake, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Anderson, and T.E.D. Klein.

Table of Contents:

• Wonder and Terror - essay by Fritz Leiber
• There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding - novelette by Russell Kirk
• The Whisperer - short story by Brian Lumley
• Armaja Das - short story by Joe Haldeman
• The Kitten - novelette by Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson
• Oh Tell Me Will It Freeze Tonight - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Dead Call - short story by William F. Nolan
• The Idiots - short story by Davis Grubb
• The Companion - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Firefight - novelette by David Drake
• It Only Comes Out at Night - short story by Dennis Etchison
• Compulsory Games - novelette by Robert Aickman
• Sums - (1976) - short story by John Jakes and Richard E. Peck
• The Warm Farewell - short story by Robert Bloch
• End Game - short story by Gahan Wilson
• Afterword - essay by Kirby McCauley